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Folly's Bells When the calm waters of the Zuyder Zee Ebb slowly out
to meet the sleeping sea,? What time, o'erwearied, fierce
Euroclydon, In the far caverns of the icy north, Dreaming of
contests won, Forgets his goings forth,? The home-bound sailor's
gleeful shout is stilled, His heart with horror chilled; For there,
beneath the waves serene, Smit with a ghastly splendor through the
green, He sees a city dead ? the towers and domes Of ancient
Stavoren, once happy homes,? A wan eidolon now, the refluent sea In
these brief moments of complacent mien From its long dole of
darkness setting free? Like as from dungeon a dethroned queen. O
Stavoren fair Stavoren Erst among noblest of the marts of trade; By
wealth and pomp so graced How humbled how abased And to this doom
betrayed By a weak Friesian dame, Who, blindly arrogant, Mocked at
all pain and want, Perversely reckless of the sin and shame, If but
her vanity Might hold supremacy. And to her sumptuous courts came
embassies, A giddy, thriftless throng, Sent from all realms, with
fulsome flatteries Joining her dowried minstrels in their song,
Crying in blatant tones that her alone Empress of splendor all the
world should own. Thus sped long, prosperous years. Fearless of
adverse skies, With sunny brow, and eyes As yet undimmed by tears,
From her fine windows far and wide looked she ? That haughty dame
Richberta ? many a day Watching with pride the white sails, fleet
and free, Fluttering outward from Stavoren bay, Or the home-coming
keel, with treasures vast Deep-laden, dip lowly the bending mast.
Ships the staunchest were hers to run Swift as a shuttle to and fro
Every kingdom under the sun ? Weaving a web of friendship so, And
of the bounty that blesses earth ? Wealth...
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